Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 31 2022 03:38pm)
I assumed state department foreign aid was used for this kind of thing, even if it was aggressive action dressed up with plausible deniability like funding pro-democracy groups in Russia
If state is giving foreign aid to bolster domestic research programs in Ukraine that's one thing, if the military is paying to build BSL-3 facilities for the purpose of studying the most weaponizable pathogens, that's another
"Obama uses money meant to feed the world's poor and clean up natural disasters to fund bioweapons".
Quote (babun1024 @ Mar 31 2022 03:44pm)
You can't be that naive. DoD funding peaceful research on foreign soil?
no, i'm asking a budgetary question. as in what pools of cash were available to fund this. i'm not saying it was good to fund it, or positing what it was that was funded. i'm just asking which piggy banks had coins to shake out.